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What is the thick slippery substances produced by the body that makes food move more easily through digestive system?

This is called mucous. You make about one liter per day in the digestive tract. You also make some in the respiratory tract, urinary tract and the reproductive tract. Any system that has a connection to the outside makes mucous. All others (internal organs) make serous fluid as a sort of bath.


What are the outpockets of an anterior digestive tract that may develop into respiratory structures?

The outpockets of an anterior digestive tract that may develop into respiratory structures are called respiratory diverticula. These diverticula are found in organisms like insects and some mollusks, where they eventually form into structures like tracheae or lungs for gas exchange.


What vessel contains sphincter?

The gastrointestinal tract contains sphincters, which are circular muscles that regulate the movement of material through the digestive system. Some examples of sphincters in the gastrointestinal tract include the lower esophageal sphincter, pyloric sphincter, and anal sphincter.


What organ system remove substance from blood?

There is more than one system that removes wastes from the body. The urinary system is probably the most familiar (urine), the digestive tract (feces), the respiratory tract (carbon dioxide) and the integumentary (skin) removes water and some electrolytes.


What is a fluid filled space separating an animal's digestive tract from the body wall known as?

The space is called the coelum, and provides cushioning of the digestive system in earthworms and some other simple animals. It allows the organs to function independently of the external structures.

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What is leech digestive tract?

Leeches have a complete digestive tract. Leeches are members of Phylum Annelida. This phylum has the general characteristic of having a complete digestive tract, i.e. food goes in through the mouth, pass through digestive tract of some sort like stomach and/or intestine, waste gets discarded through some sort of rectal opening, i.e. anus. In comparison, an incomplete digestive tract generally means food goes in and waste come out of the same opening, i.e. mouth=anus. Lower level invertebrates have incomplete digestive tract like Phylum Cnidaria and Phylum Platyhelminthes members.


Do prawns defecate?

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How does food get from the digestive tract to the blood then to each cell?

due to the chonigal order it some that i do not prosess in my brain......


What are some ways to keep the digestive tract healthy on a daily basis?

eat healthy. eat tyler lawson


What would happen if a human would swallow a tack?

It would cause some pretty serious bleeding in the digestive tract.


What is part of the gastrointestinal system but not the gastrointestinal tract?

I think you are looking for liver and pancreas, these are accessory digestive organs that produce enzymes and emulsifiers that are secreted into the digestive tract.


If you are missing some nerves in your lower digestive tract how can a problem with muscles really be a problems with nerves?

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What is the thick slippery substances produced by the body that makes food move more easily through digestive system?

This is called mucous. You make about one liter per day in the digestive tract. You also make some in the respiratory tract, urinary tract and the reproductive tract. Any system that has a connection to the outside makes mucous. All others (internal organs) make serous fluid as a sort of bath.


Is Charcoal tablets good for cleaning blood?

Not really. It can absorb some posions that are still in your stomach /digestive tract, but that's pretty much it.


The major organs of the digestive tract are?

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Can you determine why some drugs have narrower spectra than others?

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